Photo Albums

Noteworthy Photography

Burning Flags PressThe website of Glen E. Friedman. Renowned for both his work with musicians like Fugazi, Minor Threat, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, Slayer (and many, many more) as well as his groundbreaking documentation of the burgeoning skateboard phenomenon in the late `70's, Glen has been privvy to (and has summarily captured on film) some of the coolest stuff ever. He's also an incredibly insightful and nice guy to boot.

SoHo Blues - Photography by Allan TannenbaumAllan Tannenbaum is a local photographer who has been everywhere and shot everything, from members of Blondie hanging out at the Mudd Club through the collapsing towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th. You could spend hours on this site, and I have.

Robert Otter PhotographsAmazing vintage photographs of New York City, specifically my own neighborhood, Greenwich Village.

Big Laughs

The Weblog of Spumco's John K.The weblog of cartoonist John Kricfalusi, crazed mind and frantic pencil behind the original "Ren & Stimpy," as well as "The Goddamn George Liquor Show." Surreal, unapologetic, uncompromising genius.

August 29, 2017

Rip This Joint

Documenting the closing of relatively new restaurants is really more of EV Grieve’s beat than mine, but I spotted this on the way to work this morning, and it struck a chord with me.

I honestly can’t remember what this space was back in the 1980’s, but I remember the upstairs was the home of freaky rock poster gallery, Psychedelic Solution (which I spoke about way back here).

As one of the first high-end restaurants to open up during the initial campaign to turn West 8th Street into some kind of new Restaurant Row, a venture called Elettaria opened up beneath the former Psychedelic Solution around 2008. I never went. Evidently, neither did a lot of people, and the restaurant closed without a lot of fanfare shortly thereafter. Sometime after that -– I can’t even remember -– the space in question was repurposed as a downtown iteration of The Burger Joint (in 2013, evidently). The original Burger Joint still holds its oddball space in the lobby of the Park Meridian in midtown. This downtown version, however, boasted all the same aesthetic trappings and same great fare.

I was skeptical at first, but I swiftly became something of regular about two summers ago, and my kids absolutely adore it.

Well, apparently, it’s now “closed for now” if the sign on the front door is to be believed.